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Heritage conservation in post-redevelopment Los Angeles: evaluating the impact of the Community Redevelopment Agency of the City of Los Angeles (CRA/LA) on the historic built environment

HERITAGE CONSERVATION IN POST-REDEVELOPMENT LOS ANGELES: EVALUATING THE IMPACT OF THE COMMUNITY
REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY OF THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES (CRA/LA) ON THE HISTORIC BUILT ENVIRONMENT
by
Andrew Robert Goodrich
A Thesis Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE USC SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
MASTER OF HERITAGE CONSERVATION
December 2013
Copyright 2013 Andrew Robert Goodrich

Redevelopment agencies (RDAs) were a key local economic development tool in California for more than six decades, but were eliminated in 2012 in response to the state’s ballooning budget deficit. The dissolution of redevelopment is projected to yield wide-reaching policy implications; however, since the relationship between redevelopment and the historic built environment has not yet been addressed at length, the ramifications of redevelopment’s demise on heritage conservation is difficult to predict. This thesis uses this dearth of information as a window of opportunity to learn more about this relationship as it pertains to one particular RDA: the Community Redevelopment Agency of the City of Los Angeles (CRA/LA). Seven case study redevelopment projects in downtown Los Angeles that were associated with CRA/LA and included a conservation component are addressed at length to provide information toward this end. Analysis of these case studies reveals that CRA/LA demonstrated a commitment to heritage conservation, exhibited good stewardship of historic properties, and played an influential—and often critical—role in bringing conservation projects to fruition. Thus, the dissolution of CRA/LA is likely to produce negative impacts on future efforts to conserve the historic built environment in downtown Los Angeles.

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HERITAGE CONSERVATION IN POST-REDEVELOPMENT LOS ANGELES: EVALUATING THE IMPACT OF THE COMMUNITY
REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY OF THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES (CRA/LA) ON THE HISTORIC BUILT ENVIRONMENT
by
Andrew Robert Goodrich
A Thesis Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE USC SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
MASTER OF HERITAGE CONSERVATION
December 2013
Copyright 2013 Andrew Robert Goodrich